In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the
women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in …

Lara J. Foley n recent decades, the literature on interviewing has considered the interview
as a social interaction in which the interviewer and the respondent jointly construct …

Most pregnant women in the United States today choose a normative physician‐guided
pregnancy followed by a medically managed hospital birth. Some, however, choose the care …

OBJECTIVE: to explore commencing students' views of the good midwife. This study was set
against a background of high course attrition and concerns that discordant students' views of …

Because midwifery in the United States is an occupation at the margins of medicine,
midwives must frequently negotiate competing identity claims. This article examines the …

The profession and practice of nursing has been studied from quite diverse scholarly
perspectives in the United States and abroad. Feminist critiques focus on the gendering of …

Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli analysoida ja kuvata kainuulaisten miesten
terveyskäyttäytymistä, terveyspalveluihin suhtautumista ja terveyskäyttäytymiseen liittyvää …

Practicing midwifery is illegal in four states and the District of Columbia. However, midwives
still practice as they and much of the public do not see their behavior as criminal. Based on …

This chapter provides an overview of the use of narrative inquiry in researching social
problems. We begin by providing a brief historical sketch and definition. We then describe …

This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal
status as a counter practice to mainstream maternity care in the two decades prior to the …